Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 145: Exchange of Pulse Protection Pills, Zhou Family's Situation [Subscription Request]

Lingzhou, Donglingfang Market.

At that time, Zhou Chun took out the treasure of the musk deer's spiritual fragrance.

Master Jiang's expression on the opposite side changed instantly.

"It's the scent of a musk deer!"

He exclaimed in surprise and immediately took the jade bottle handed to him by Zhou Chun to examine it.

He just poured out a little incense powder and tasted it lightly, then nodded repeatedly and said, "It is indeed authentic spiritual incense, original flavor!"

Then he quickly covered the jade bottle to prevent the fragrance from dissipating.

Zhou Chun smiled when he saw this and said, "How about it? If we add this little bit of incense, it should be enough to exchange for the meridian-protecting pill in Master Jiang's hand!"

Hearing his words, Master Jiang's eyes suddenly flashed with strangeness, and he nodded repeatedly in response: "That's enough, this one or two musk deer incense and these spiritual herbs are enough to exchange for the meridian protection pill."

After that, he looked at Zhou Chun with a sharp gaze and said, "However, since Brother Zhou was able to take out one or two spiritual incense sticks, you must have more spiritual incense in your hand, right? I wonder if you can exchange more for Jiang? Jiang is willing to exchange it with other precious spiritual pills!"

Zhou Chun's eyes moved when he heard this, and he couldn't help but ask: "Oh, does Master Jiang have Yangmai Pills?"

When Master Jiang heard what he said, he knew that he must still have some spiritual incense in his hand.

He immediately said, "I don't have the Yangmai Pill at the moment, but if Daoist Zhou is willing to exchange it with Lingxiang, I can find other alchemists to exchange it for you!"

"Then wait until Master Jiang gets this item, then exchange it with Zhou!"

Zhou Chun nodded, which was considered as his agreement.

"Okay, then it's settled!"

"This is the meridian-protecting pill that Daoist Fellow Zhou wants. Daoist Fellow, please check it."

As Master Jiang spoke, he took out a pill bottle from his storage bag and handed it to Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun took the pill bottle, opened the stopper and looked inside, only to see that it contained a green-brown pill the size of a longan.

The fragrance it exudes and its appearance are exactly the same as the records left by the senior cultivators of the Zhou family, and it is definitely the authentic product.

So he quickly put the cork back into the bottle, nodded and said, "Yes, it is indeed the Pulse Protection Pill."

After both parties were sure that there was no problem with the items, they exchanged and took away what they needed.

Then Master Jiang said, "It may take me one or two months to exchange for the Yangmai Pill. I wonder how I can find the two Taoist friends by then?"

After hearing this, Zhou Chun hesitated for a moment, then replied in a deep voice: "Master Jiang, you only need to send a message to the Wang family of Hongyao Valley, and the Wang family will naturally notify Zhou."

Since he has a request to the Wang family, I don't think Master Jiang will vent his anger on the Wang family because the news of the Pulse Protecting Pill was leaked by the Wang family.

Master Jiang also naturally saw this point, and immediately nodded and said: "Okay, Jiang understands what Brother Zhou means."

After that, he smiled and said, "It's rare that I'm happy today. Please wait for a moment, fellow Taoists. Jiang will go and make a pot of homemade medicinal wine for you two fellow Taoists."

As he said this, he got up and made tea.

But at this time, Zhou Daoquan, who had been silent beside Zhou Chun, suddenly said, "We appreciate Master Jiang's kindness, but you don't have to drink the wine. We have important things to do, so we'll take our leave first."

Hearing his words, Zhou Chun was also moved, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, let's skip the wine, Master Jiang, you don't have to be so polite. We have been out for a while, so as not to worry our families, we should go back as soon as possible."

"Well, since you two Taoist friends are in a hurry to go back, I will not keep you any longer. I will take you there."

Master Jiang said this and stood up to see Zhou Chun and the other two out of the pharmacy.

After leaving the pharmacy, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan went directly to the outside of the market town, and soon rode Zhu Yanhe out of the market town together.

Moreover, the two of them did not rest for a moment on the road this time. They let Zhu Yanhe consume his magic power to fly all the way, and then they took over the flight after Zhu Yanhe was exhausted. It took less than a day to return to Jiufengling.

"Is there another second-level flying monster to take you there?"

In Dongling Market, Master Jiang looked at the communication talisman in his hand with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Then he shook his head slightly, left the pharmacy immediately, and went around looking for friends to exchange Yangmai Pills.

On the other side, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan also breathed a sigh of relief after returning home safely.

Then Zhou Chun thanked Zhou Daoquan for accompanying him, and the two of them went back to the mountain to do their own things.

Now that he had obtained the Pulse Protecting Pill, there was also a good chance that he could get the Pulse Nourishing Pill as well, and Zhou Chun was in a very good mood.

If everything goes well, he won't need ten or eight years at all, but can practice "Golden Tripod Mysterious Art" within three to five years.

Of course, since he had promised the Grand Elder Zhou Mingde and the clan leader Zhou Daoyi, he would still try his best to wait for the clan leader Zhou Daoyi to break through to the late stage of foundation building before starting to switch to practicing martial arts.

At this time, after his many preliminary preparations, some of the preliminary preparations for reforming the Zhou family had been completed.

So he invited the clan leader Zhou Daoyi and the four elders of the Zhou family to the Zhongping Hall, ready to start his performance.

Zhou Daoyi and the elders were seated in the Zhongping Hall. Four mortal scribes were also in place behind the desks on both sides of the hall.

At this time, a scribe checked several account books on the desk in front of him, and then said respectfully to Zhou Chun who was sitting on the floor: "Deputy clan leader, I have checked the relevant data again and again, and confirmed that there is no mistake."

"Then let's get started."

Zhou Chun nodded slightly and gave instructions.

"Yes, I obey."

The scribe responded, took a deep breath to suppress his excitement, glanced at the Zhou family leaders present, and said respectfully, "Patriarch, elders, in accordance with the deputy patriarch's instructions, I will now report to you all the statistics and verification of the Zhou family's relevant information."

"Currently, my Zhou family has a total of 157 cultivators, including 126 Zhou family cultivators, 31 in-laws cultivators, 96 male cultivators, and 61 female cultivators."

"Except for the Grand Elder, the Clan Leader, the Deputy Clan Leader, and all the elders, including the in-laws, the Zhou family has a total of eleven core clan members, thirty-two elite clan members, and one hundred and seven ordinary clan members."

"Among these clansmen, there are 38 cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage, 86 cultivators in the middle Qi Refining stage, 8 cultivators in the early Qi Refining stage, and 18 clansmen who are still young and have not yet entered the Dao to practice."

Having said this, the transcriber paused for a moment at Zhou Chun's signal and stopped reporting.

"Fourth Elder, you seem to have something to say."

Zhou Chun looked at the fourth elder Zhou Jiarui and spoke with a smile.

"I just feel a little emotional!" Zhou Jiarui sighed softly, and said with emotion: "I remember when our Zhou family first took root in Jiufengling, there were more than 140 people. I didn't expect that after more than ten years, the number of people has only increased by a dozen, and many of them are outsiders who were married in!"

Hearing his words, several other elders of the Zhou family couldn't help but show sadness.

Clan leader Zhou Daoyi also said at the right time: "In fact, our Zhou family has added nearly 40 monks in the past ten years, but the problem is that our Zhou family has lost more than 20 monks who have died or married out due to various reasons. This addition and subtraction only adds a dozen people to the family!"

Second Elder Zhou Chongshan heard this and shook his head, saying, "That's still too few. I remember when we were still in Feng Country, our family would find more than six or seven people with spiritual roots from ordinary people every year. Sometimes, if we were lucky, we could find more than ten people!"

"What can we do?"

"The number of ordinary people in Jingguo is less than one-tenth of that in Fengguo. Even if they give birth every year, they can only have three or four children with spiritual roots at most."

"If we want to wait for these children to grow up and practice Taoism, it will take at least ten years!"

When Zhou Daoyi said this, a bitter smile appeared on his face.

None of them was unaware of the importance of the number of monks to a family.

A family certainly needs high-end forces like the Purple Mansion cultivators to take charge, but it also cannot lack a number of low-level Qi Refining cultivators.

Once the number of Qi Refining cultivators decreases, it will not only affect the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators, but will also have a significant impact on the daily operations of the family.

After all, many family chores are undertaken by cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.

Just when these Zhou family leaders were sighing because their family's population was not increasing, Zhou Chun dealt them a ruthless blow.

Zhou Chun said, "There is actually another important question now. The family has the largest number of Jia-generation cultivators. Among them, there are nearly 20 cultivators over the age of 80, and several of their Taoist companions are also close to this age."

"In the next twenty or thirty years, even if we don't count the number of monks who left home or died for other reasons, the death of these people will have a significant impact on the family's population!"

Sure enough, after hearing what he said, the faces of several elders darkened again, and their faces became even more worried.

Third Elder Zhou Daoquan's eyes flashed with a strange look, and he immediately looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Zhengchun, since you are talking about this today, do you have any good ideas for solving this problem?"

Hearing this, the other people also turned their eyes to Zhou Chun, with anticipation in their eyes.

Facing the eager expectations of the elders, Zhou Chun smiled faintly and said, "I do have some ideas, but I'll talk about them later. Elders, please listen to something else first!"

After hearing his words, several senior members of the Zhou family immediately became more expectant.

Zhou Daoyi immediately smiled and said, "Then let's see what you are up to. Keep talking."

"Yes, go on, we are all listening!"

Zhou Daoquan also smiled, calmed down and prepared to continue listening.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately said to the transcriber who had stopped, "Go on."

"Yes."

The scribe responded and continued, "The Zhou family's spiritual currency income in the past year is about 32,800 pieces. Among them, more than 17,000 pieces come from the spiritual beast store in the market, more than 7,000 pieces come from the rent of the family training area, more than 2,000 pieces come from the share of the red iron vein, and more than 5,000 pieces come from trade with other forces."

"The Zhou family's spiritual currency expenditure in the past year was approximately 25,000 spiritual coins. Apart from the expenditure on the independent cultivators who helped the family guard the Pure Spirit Pavilion, the vast majority of it was used to purchase various supplies."

"In addition, according to statistics, the Zhou family has distributed more than 17,000 family merit points in the past year, of which more than 7,300 points were distributed as normal welfare offerings, more than 5,000 points were distributed as task rewards, and more than 4,000 points were distributed for purchasing spiritual objects from family members."

"The Zhou family has written off more than 9,000 points of good deeds in the past year, mainly from the clan members exchanging them for treasures in the clan's reserves."

"At the same time, the total amount of good deeds accumulated by all members of the Zhou family is more than 58,000 points!"

When the transcriber said this, he couldn't help but glance at Zhou Chun.

"Okay, let's go here first."

Zhou Chun raised his hand and pressed the pause button.

Then he looked at the clan leader and the elders and said in a deep voice: "Population and money are the two most important things for a force. I think the elders will have no objection to this."

"Let's not talk about the population issue just now, let's talk about the money issue now, which is a serious problem!"

"At first glance, the family's annual spiritual currency income is higher than its expenditure, but in fact, that's because the family used the spiritual coins that were supposed to be distributed to convert into good deeds."

"The actual remaining spiritual coins are not enough to offset the amount of good deeds left after the annual write-off!"

"And the amount of good deeds accumulated by the tribe members is increasing year by year!"

“If they accumulate enough good deeds, but find that it is difficult to exchange them for the cultivation items they need, and the family cannot provide enough spiritual coins to exchange them, then a huge trust crisis will erupt within the family!”

After he said this, the expressions of several Zhou family elders changed.

Putting themselves in other people's shoes, they asked themselves what would happen if they were faced with that kind of situation, where they had painstakingly accumulated good deeds for more than ten or twenty years, but could not exchange them for spiritual coins, nor for the things they wanted.

Who knows how much resentment he will have towards his family by then!

"How much spiritual currency is currently stored in the family account?"

The second elder Zhou Chongshan's eyes flashed, and he saw the key point at a glance.

"More than 13,000 spirit coins!"

Zhou Chun answered his question in a deep voice.

"This amount of spirit coins can only be used for temporary exchange, but it is not enough for the tribesmen to exchange on a large scale!"

The clan leader Zhou Daoyi also interrupted at this time and pointed out: "And once the door for directly exchanging good deeds for spirit coins is opened, I am afraid that many clan members will choose to exchange good deeds for spirit coins!"

Good deeds are just equivalent to spiritual coins issued within the Zhou family and can only be used by the Zhou family.

However, spiritual coins are used throughout the entire world of immortal cultivation.

Even a fool knows which one to choose after the exchange is liberalized!
Zhou Chun also said in a deep voice at this time: "It is precisely because of this that, compared to the issue of population, solving the family's financial problems is truly urgent!"

"What do you think, then?"

Clan leader Zhou Daoyi spoke again and asked the question on behalf of the others.

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